Of course, you can make more money by trading and investment. In trading, you can earn a lot when the price pump as well as in investment, i believe in holding that it can give us a great profit as long as btc price rise again.
The last two days have been horrible for the majority of cryptos. Even the bigger and more robust ones have lost pace against the escalation of the bitcoin price. The research into the next profitable coin has become more and more time consuming, but sometimes very worthy (see emc2 for example). I recommend to keep reading and up to date to gain steadily.